It looks as if a total, complete cold shutdown has been achieved in the heads of some ministers and agency heads and career bureaucrats in the Japanese national government.

The Japan Tourism Agency under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism launched a new campaign on the day of the declaration of the “cold shutdown/accident over” by Prime Minister Yoshikiko “Saved by Kim” Noda.

What’s the campaign, you ask?

“Let’s go visit Fukushima Prefecture, now that the Step 2 of the TEPCO/government Roadmap has been completed!” Rejoice, it’s safe!

Today [December 16], Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced the completion of the so-called Step 2 (achievement of a “cold shutdown state” of the reactors) of “the roadmap to winding down the TEPCO Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident”.

The Japan Tourism Agency intends to inform people both inside and outside Japan of the fact that Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant has achieved a “cold shutdown state”. Thanks to the 3rd supplementary budget for the fiscal 2011 year, the Agency will consider the entire Tohoku region as one big exhibition hall, and by coordinating the various regional and private efforts promote the domestic tourism with events like “Tohoku Tourism Exhibition”. The Agency will also strive for a steady recovery of foreign tourists visiting Japan.

The Agency has heard from Fukushima Prefecture that the prefecture is looking forward to receiving visitors from all over Japan with “thank-you” campaign and free lift passes for the ski slopes targeted for young people.

Citizens of Japan, by all means please go visit Fukushima Prefecture. Unless Fukushima recovers, Tohoku, or for that matter the entire Japan will not recover. Be considerate how the people living in the affected areas of Fukushima feel, and let’s do it together with the spirit that tourism will make Japan recover.

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… these are not “dosimeters” but “glass badges” that passively collect radiation information. It won’t help these children or their parents to avoid high-radiation areas and spots, it won’t tell them how much radiation they will have been exposed unless they are sent in to a company to interpret the data.

Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.

Yo: So making comparisons with X-rays and CT scans has no meaning. Because you can breathe in radioactive material.

Hirose: That’s right. When it enters your body, there’s no telling where it will go. The biggest danger is women, especially pregnant women, and little children. Now they’re talking about iodine and cesium, but that’s only part of it, they’re not using the proper detection instruments. What they call monitoring means only measuring the amount of radiation in the air. Their instruments don’t eat. What they measure has no connection with the amount of radioactive material.

Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):

You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative … that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days.”

They are lying, aren’t they? What happened to the rods? Do they really think they can fool everyone? Unfortunately, MSM has done a total blackout on the story from day one, so many people are not aware it is continuing.
I heard Japan is offering 50,000 free trips to get the tourist momentum going again….the visitors will have to give Japan endorsements how well everything has been cleaned up, that it is safe once again.
I fear people can be too easily fooled. Look at the defense authorization bill that just passed both houses of congress. Obama’s only objection to the bill was that the senate version curtailed some of his powers, and that he would veto it. He said not one word against establishing the military as an added police presence here in America, nor a thing against indefinite detention for all of us, not even a word for civil rights. The fact the bill legalizes torture is barely touched upon…..only the first couple of days. Now, it is law, or will be shortly, and MSM is talking about some foolishness in the congress & that Obama’s approval rate is up. It is total obfuscation! I cannot understand why so many people float along with the propaganda machine. Even the left wing pundits are not touching the story.
We are facing a military police state run by a totalitarian corporate dictatorship. Everything Orwell wrote in his book, 1984, has come to pass.
Are people really this stupid? It sure looks that way to me.
Thank you, Infinite unknown, for all you are doing to get the truth out. I fear the Internet censor act they are taking up next month will make it even more difficult for people to find any truth at all.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Gjerdrum